New and looking for a generator
Hello everyone. I'm buying my first travel trailer, a Forest River Cherokee Wolf Pup 16BHS. I am planning to do a lot of boondocking, and I want a generator. I want a small portable generator, but I d...
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GravelRider wrote:
What size generator do I need?
Since your trailer is almost certainly wired for 30 amps input, anything more is irrelevant Someone mentioned 6,000 watts of which nearly half would be a waste with your setup.
No mechanical generator is "Silent", so how close will you be camping to other campers? A couple of "quiet" generators howling outside your bedroom window all night long is not fun, but another generator one hundred feet away might not bother anyone.
Like so many, I like the idea of "independence" and "freedom" that buying a generator promises. I have hauled one of half a dozen models for twenty years and 100,000 miles with almost no need for a generator. In that twenty years, I have encountered damaging low voltage in one park and I monitor it everywhere I go. If you want a generator, get one. You do not need one to have a lot of fun traveling and camping.
